The European Union is funding a project that intends to use high-tech sensors to get young people to adopt healthy lifestyles. BBC News From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2013
The Internet is threatened by a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship," warns Sir Tim Berners-Lee. BBC News From ACM TechNews | November 25, 2013
The British Broadcasting Corporation will launch an initiative in 2015 promoting software programming in the United Kingdom. BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 11, 2013
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence will recruit reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in its new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit. BBC News From ACM TechNews | September 30, 2013
Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...BBC News From ACM News | September 4, 2013
The European Union's Seventh Framework Program is funding the Strands project, which is developing software for robot brains that can be used as security guards...BBC News From ACM TechNews | August 30, 2013
Games have long been accused of making players violent, but evidence has been building over the years that they can have positive effects.BBC News From ACM News | August 27, 2013
The U.K. government has warned the Guardian newspaper that foreign agents could use laser technology to eavesdrop on them, in the wake of recent surveillance leaks...BBC News From ACM News | August 23, 2013
Earlier this summer in a packed and freezing-cold auditorium in Doha, the all-female team of students from Qatar University burst into cheers and tears as theyINJAZ...BBC News From ACM News | August 7, 2013
Legitimate users of the Tor anonymous browsing service are being advised to stop using Windows if they want to keep their identity hidden.BBC News From ACM News | August 6, 2013
We currently use atomic clocks to count the seconds, but tests on an alternative atomic timekeeper have revealed that it is more precise.BBC News From ACM News | July 19, 2013
Negobot, a "virtual Lolita" robot, poses as a 14-year-old girl and tries to identify pedophiles in online chatrooms. BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 17, 2013
A new app called CrowdShake provides early earthquake warnings by converting a smartphone's accelerometer into a seismometer. BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2013
One of the big challenges in fighting organized crime is precisely that it is organized. It is run a bit like a business, with chains of command and responsibility...BBC News From ACM News | July 9, 2013